Word: forme
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...Tell me about Willow, the little girl in your new novel. Willow is a little girl who was born with osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), which is commonly known as brittle bone disease. Willow has the most severe form you can have without dying at birth. She will have hundreds to thousands of bone breaks over the course of a lifetime. She'll wind up with curvature of the spine. She'll have a compromised respiratory system because of the shape of her ribcage. She'll never be more than about three feet tall. It's a very tough physical existence...
...land bare - the message wasn't about polar bears or sea levels but the essential injustice of climate change. Unjust because in the U.S. and around the world it is those least responsible for climate change who will suffer the most from warming, and because it is a form of "generational theft," as one activist put it, with the young standing to inherit a ruined Earth. "My generation has blown it," said Rocky Anderson, former mayor of Salt Lake City, one of several politicians who joined the march. "But this power is going to be fueled by the young people...
...teach the debate.” But among the most damaging tactics is to refer to those who accept evolution as Darwinists, because it feeds off the sense of awe many scientists genuinely feel toward Darwin. American creationists use it to imply that believers in evolution form little more than a religious sect, owing irrational fealty to a charismatic spiritual leader. It doesn’t help that the term Darwinism is actually used by scientists, although only to differentiate between early evolutionary hypotheses...
...found myself in this very dilemma. Fortunately, Harvard’s add/drop system allows students to make additional changes after shopping week. And so, just before 5 p.m. on the third Monday of the term, I stopped by the registrar’s office to turn in an add/drop form. The woman who took it smiled and said, “Great! You just missed the fee!” This struck me as odd. Why would I be charged money to change my schedule...
...financial justification for the fee is weak at best. Certainly, the cost of processing an add/drop form is nowhere near $10 per person. Moreover, it is unlikely that it costs nothing to process a schedule on the third Monday of a term but $10 to do so on the third Tuesday. Even supposing the administrative burden were that expensive, the College should draw this fee from the $32,000 in tuition it has already extracted from each student, presumably for such academic purposes...